I have a old laptop hard drive that i had to replace out of a HP Palilion dv6000 laptop, for as i know the drive is still good, when i reformated it the computer lockup and so i had to turn it off, bad move, but thats all i could do. didnt have the vista bootup disk, and stuid me didnt make one before reformatted the hard drive, so i had to buy another OS and so i when ahead and bought a 500GB WD for the lappy. so now im building a gaming desktop and bought a 1TB hard drive for the gaming computer and i was wondering if i could use the lappy drive to load the OS to and then use the 1TB drive for loading games to. Will this work or do i have to load it all on one HD? thanks for any help!!!
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Yea you should be able to us it in your desktop, if it works.
All you need is a 3.5 inch to 5.25 inch HD bracket, mount it in your tower and your good to go.
All you need is a 3.5 inch to 5.25 inch HD bracket, mount it in your tower and your good to go.
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If it's a PATA drive your gonna need one of these.
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Yea, my bad. It's late here
It's a SATA drive so use the standard connectors.
the lappy drive is a SATA drive just like the 1TB one
and i already have a SATA cable that came with my mobo
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You can't use the OS from the laptop though, you're going to have to format and reinstall. Other then that it should work fine.
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I'm on Win7 64bit ultimate. My Windows folder is 12.9 GB (13,941,383,476 bytes). Just for a ball park estimate 
